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Sunday, 21 September 2014

Hitler's Last Surviving Food Taster Tells German TV of the Horrors of Her Job

FSWC Reports:

From ynetnews.com:

Being one of Adolf
Hitler's food tasters, meal time for Margot Woelk was literally a
Russian roulette. 96-year-old Woelk told German TV channel RBB of the
horrifying meals that reduced her and her friends to tears of relief
every time they discovered the food was not poisoned and their lives
were spared once more. From among her food-tasting friends, Woelk is the
only woman who survived.

When she was 25 years
old, Woelk was recruited along with 14 other women to sample the Nazi
leader's food, to make sure it wasn't poisoned.